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...South Vietnamese troops struggling for favorable positions prior to a possible ceasefire. Recently, TIME Correspondents David Aikman and Donald Neff visited the sites of two of the longest and bloodiest battles that stemmed from the Communists' Easter offensive: Quang Tri, capital of South Viet Nam's northernmost province, and An Loc, another provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon. Their reports...
...pilot finally regained control of his plane and flew it back to Addis Ababa's Haile Selassie I airport. There the skyjackers were linked with the Eritrean Liberation Front, which has long been fighting to free Ethiopia's northernmost province. In 1970 two other Eritrean rebels attempted a similar skyjack. They were subdued by security men who neatly tucked towels on the seats behind the culprits and then slit their throats...
...still hoping that Hanoi would make further, more specific concessions on several key points. Among them: that a cease-fire in South Viet Nam be followed quickly by one in Laos and Cambodia, and that the North Vietnamese commit themselves to the withdrawal of troops from at least the northernmost provinces of South Viet...
...last remaining obstacles to a peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union formally ending World War II is the fate of four small islands north of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost province, that have been occupied by the Russians since 1945. Shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited Tokyo last January, Soviet officials hinted that they might agree to a "lease" arrangement that would implicitly recognize the Japanese claim over the islands-recognition that Tokyo has made a precondition to any treaty. But before starting talks on the treaty as the Russians wished, Japan's new Premier...
...Communists capture provincial capital of Quang Tri and gain control of northernmost province...